May enters Beautifly in the beauty contest, but Team Rocket is too late to enter their Dustox. At the competitions, the person in line right before May is none other than her rival Drew. Drew's Roselia gives an excellent performance, netting him an extremely high score. May is more determined than ever to beat Drew.Meanwhile, Team Rocket is busy holding a "charity drive" scam for PokéBlocks. A little old man stops to talk to them about PokéBlocks. The contest is heating up with a Milotic stealing the show. May is up again in the contest and she and her Beautifly toss a disc back and forth, like they practiced before.In the next round, she has to battle Drew who defeats her. He then looses to the contestant with the Milotic. May and Drew part on good terms and the scene ends with the old man still intently talking to a slumbering Team Rocket about PokéBlocks.
Tropes
- Bittersweet Ending: May's first contest ends in a humiliating defeat but she pulls together and strives to win the next contest.
- Break the Cutie: The Pokémon battle part of the episode was not kind to May.
- Crippling Overspecialization: May's training with Beautifly focused entirely on the Appeal part of the contest, making her unprepared for the Battle part, and, while May and Beautifly was able to make it past the first round, they lost horribly in their first battle.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: In the battling part of the Pokémon contest, Drew's Roselia soundly defeats May's Beautifly. May did not take it well.
- Likewise, Drew's Roselia suffers a harsh defeat against Robert's Milotic, with the latter completely unharmed while the former was struggling hard. At least he fared better than May.
- Heroic BSoD: After her defeat, May was crying in the locker room, blaming herself when her Beautifly worked so hard and she couldn't do anything.
